Резюме / AbstractThe world today is faced up with two alternatives: unipolar world with a monopoly
of power-imposed solution to global conflicts, or multi-polar world, based on the balance
of power and consensus in the common interests of guaranteeing security and social
values. The unipolar world is dominated and ruled by global economic and political elites,
it is a world of permanent wars and confrontation of civilizations, of West and East. The
multi-polar world could be based on a power balance, social and economic pluralism and
peace culture.
The accepted orientation to the model of making collective decisions by proxy
appears to lead to negative consequences for our insecure world. Today there exists a
widespread view that the „New World Order” of dominance of one superpower, the U.S.,
committed to settling the world conflicts with power intervention - is not a permanent
security guarantee. Unless the U.S., NATO and the EU assume the role of proxy in
situational coalitions created under their control.Other more promising strategy is to choose a dominant option. One option should be
dominant for decision-makers, if they prefer its outcome to be the outcome of each other
option, making other participants to act. If such option is not available, and if ambiguity
exists, an agent might make a choice as per a rationalizable possibility, dominating in a
current situation. More often than not it leads to a decision finding an equilibrium
(balance) in the game (Schick 2007). The model suggested above allows the formation of
coalitions based on a limited consensus among several parties. The choice of a dominant
option postulates an option of finding equlibrium or cooperative decisions, acceptable to
each party; they do not make their status worse. In the context of international relations
the imposition of such a model of management and settlement of crises calls for
overcoming the unipolar insecure world and emergence of new leaders in the ranks of
existing global opposition.
Security in such a world would be based not only on a balance of forces, but also on
value-motivated consensus around common interests and shared responsibilities. It could
be said that this is the sole realistic road to finding solutions in the now raging global
energy and financial crisis, to the overcoming of existing geopolitical confrontation,
reducing poverty and the ecological crisis by means of reducing emissions, with due respect for the interests of developing countries.Вид:СтатияКлючови думи:global security, philosophy of security